Alive Gallery

I mentioned earlier that I wanted to go see this exhibition. So as a suggestion put up to our staff welfare committee, a trip was organised to go for this exhibition before it ends on 3 Oct. However, it was quite disappointing.

One main reason was the guide they arranged for us, who totally killed our mood. Her English was bad and she didn't know her stuff (yet pretended to know). In attempts to "make us think", she posed questions of which she had no answers, or even any good possible theories (which could easily have been researched upon). Like, why was a fin not painted in? She gave the answer "I think the artist forgot to paint it".
Think the final straw came when she described the stained glass at Notre Dame Cathedral as "it's from a place that I cannot pronounce the name", and when she was asked where Notre Dame was, she gave an answer like "somewhere" or "I can't pronounce" or something of the like (trying to "smoke" her way through), and when a colleague of mine offered the answer "Paris" (which was probably also written somewhere on the displayed write-up), she could only utter "oh". And so we drifted away on our own.
Granted, she probably isn't a dedicated guide (maybe someone from the resort?) and not everything was written on the script. But I think if she could "smoke" convincingly, we would still credit her for it. But unfortunately, no.
It would have been better if we were left to walk on our own from the beginning.

Ok, forgetting the guide, although my interest dissipated after the encounter, I shall highlight some interesting parts of the exhibition, even though most of the prints were not very well representatives of the originals.
An interactive and interesting part was the talking Mona Lisa, where you could pose questions to the "painting" and she would respond. It was quite amusing. We suspected that maybe someone was hiding behind the screen. I heard it actually wished a colleague "Selamat Hari Raya"!

There were only 2 spots that you could take photos, so I had to take the construction of a life-size The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum (Cafe Terrace at Night). This was what it looked like.

Overall, it wasn't a very big exhibit and given that the price of the tickets was at $17 (normal adult rate), it could have been better, especially with better guides.